This directory contains the Gambit benchmarks and benchmarking infrastructure, written by Marc Feeley. Will Clinger has hacked it up to run benchmarks on the machines used by the Larceny project, and has added several benchmarks beyond those distributed with Gambit. Abdulaziz Ghuloum converted them to R6RS libraries and added an ikarus-specific bench.ss for running the benchmarks under ikarus. Files and directories: * bench.ss: a script for running a benchmark * rnrs-benchmarks.ss: a library specifing the number of iterations that every benchmark should be run and some procedures (like run-benchmark) that the various benchmarks use. * rnrs-benchmarks/*: the actual benchmark libraries. * rn100, bib, parsing-data.ss: used by some benchmarks. To run a benchmark, type: $ ikarus --r6rs-script bench.ss Example: $ ikarus --r6rs-script bench.ss nucleic running stats for compile-nucleic: 7 collections 262 ms elapsed cpu time, including 84 ms collecting 262 ms elapsed real time, including 84 ms collecting 30095456 bytes allocated running stats for nucleic: 154 collections 840 ms elapsed cpu time, including 77 ms collecting 842 ms elapsed real time, including 78 ms collecting 640581192 bytes allocated The text that Ikarus's "time" macro and "time-it" procedure output is modeled after Chez Scheme's in order to facilitate interoperability with tools that parse benchmark data. Aziz,,,